《红楼梦》缘何“说不尽”

Why The Dream of Red Mansions Cannot Be Expressed Exhaustively

曹雪芹屡屡以隐晦婉曲的“春秋笔法”叙事写人,使《红楼梦》颇多“烟云模糊处”;他又“远师楚人”,以比兴寄托之象征手法塑造意象化人物,并通过系统的叙事意象寄寓情志;“一芹一脂”共同塑成了充满“矛盾”与张力的开放性小说文本形态;经学阐释传统之“过度阐释”与“强制阐释”对小说批评领域的强势介入:这些都在不同程度上左右着人们对《红楼梦》的阐释维度。正因《红楼梦》呈现出“伟大的混沌”状态,阐释者才会歧见纷出,从而成就了其“说不尽”的艺术魅力。

CAO Xue-qin has repeatedly written about people with“The Style of the Spring and Autumn Annals”,which makes The Dream of Red Mansions quite a lot of“fuzzy smoke and clouds”.He is also learn-ing from QU Yuan,to shape imaginative characters with the symbolic technique of metaphor and support and to convey emotions through systematic narrative imagery.“QIN and ZHI(Author and Annotator)”together formed an open novel text form full of“contradictions”and tension.The strong intervention of“excessive inter-pretation”and“compulsory interpretation”in the field of novel criticism in the tradition of scriptural interpre-tation has,to varying degrees,shaped people’s interpretation of The Dream of Red Mansions.It is precisely because The Dream of Red Mansions presents a“great state of chaos”that the interpreters have divergent views,thus achieving its“inexhaustible”artistic charm.